The effective elementary school on my educational experience
Kyle Weinreich EDC 102H
Elementary school is the foundation of educational experiences the world over. During this time every student is introduced to the various and necessary fundamental skills that they will be expected to hone, expand upon and use throughout the rest of their lives. Many people will downplay the importance of their first experiences in education. It is these experiences that I believe set the foundation and the path that any student will take throughout the rest of their educational journey. I was fortunate enough to have my elementary school teachers be some of the most inspiring energetic and exemplary educators I have ever met. I these teachers served to teach me the basic skills that I would need, both social and academic to succeed throughout my educational experience and beyond. These skills include the basics of mathematics, reading and writing as well as the perhaps less well known but equally important skills of critical thinking, computer literacy, and curiosity. These were the crucial academic skills that my elementary teachers imparted to me that enabled me to become the successful individual and today it with these skills alone I would not be who I am today in addition to the purely academic skill sets they imparted they also gave us our first taste of how to interact and work with others cooperatively and competitively.
The first and most obvious benefit of my elementary school experience was to instill the basic skills necessary for success later in life and my educational journey. I learned a variety of skills during this time that would allow me to pursue further challenges and educational opportunities. While some of these skills can easily mathematics, critical thinking, computer literacy, and curiosity which may be more of an innate skill than one can be taught the necessary skills often took a great deal more work on innovative practices. The phonics one of the primary skills that I developed during my time in elementary school was one of adults learn from my father who well once engineering major was always someone who understood appreciated and loved to teach math. I can clearly remember one incident during second grade when I was home sick and my dad bought me a small math book that just so happen to be of the fourth-grade level and helped me work through all the problems that day which often contained multiplication, division and other more complicated math I have not yet learned. From that point on which I was far ahead of the rest of my math classes between my dad's help, and my natural gifts in that area; I was solving basic balance beam problems by the time I was in fourth grade. Fortunately for me my teachers realized my interest in this area and were able to push me onward and teach me the skills necessary for further success. In addition to my math skills I learned a variety of other useful skills and practices that I would apply for the remainder of my educational experience computer literacy, critical thinking, curiosity, and a myriad of other less well defined but equally important skills such as drive, respect and many others. Unfortunately not all of my elementary experience was as successful. My writing and spelling skills had always been subpar but as time went on I fell further and further behind. In reading I was slow at best and because of my limited phonetic skills if I came across a word I hadn't heard before or seen before I could not pronounce it, or guess its meaning. This lack of skill in reading exasperated my difficulties with writing, my difficulties with spelling, my confusion with regards to punctuation and my lack of general vocabulary severely limited my writing abilities. This led to a great deal of speculation as to the cause of my lack of skill in spite of my intelligence, determination and support. In spite of all of these qualities and the support that I received I continue to fall further behind with regards to my English skills. The result of falling further and further behind was that it was assumed that I was not trying as hard as I did in the other disciplines. This caused some of my teachers to, if not give up, at least stop bothering with someone who obviously wasn't trying his hardest; otherwise he would understand these concepts that the children gained and understood easily, especially when I outpaced these other children in many other areas. This resulted in me being placed in remedial reading program with the goal of overcoming various difficulties I was been faced with. Unfortunately this program failed and it was eventually determined that I needed glasses to be able to succeed; because it was clear that I was apparently unable to read the characters not that I couldn't understand them. In spite of the difficulties in reading and writing my other skills continue to improve along with my aptitude for math I also develop skills in the sciences and I also was strongly influenced for a variety of teachers who help me to develop those skills and pushed me onto the difficulties of reading and writing. By the end of my time in elementary school it was determined that glasses were ineffective as were the remedial courses so I was determined that I should be tested to see if there was anything going on that we were missing. After hours of laborious testing administered by the school psychiatrist it was determined that I must have ADD. A misdiagnosis as it would later be determined, but was only thing we had to go on at the time so I was put on medication eventually after it was again determined that this method of action, while successful temporarily, was obviously not the solution. So as the last weeks of fifth grade were coming to a close I had a full workup done by the Learning Curve, an independence educational assessment organization, the results would set the tone for the rest of my time in both middle school high school and beyond. Another valuable skill set that I gained in elementary school was one that can only really be taught at that age. This skill is that of interpersonal relationships, being able to work with other people towards a common goal. A core component of my elementary school's philosophy was that student should working groups to develop these skills. This philosophy influenced my skills as both a leader and the student forcing every student to develop the skills necessary to lead a small group in a project that not everyone had the same level of knowledge about.
My experiences in elementary school have profoundly influenced the rest of my life. During my time in him and trade school I gained crucial skill sets that I developed and continue to develop that have allowed me to become who I am today and I also started a journey during my final years elementary school toward understanding who I am is wondering what this means for me.
Kyle Weinreich EDC 102H
Elementary school is the foundation of educational experiences the world over. During this time every student is introduced to the various and necessary fundamental skills that they will be expected to hone, expand upon and use throughout the rest of their lives. Many people will downplay the importance of their first experiences in education. It is these experiences that I believe set the foundation and the path that any student will take throughout the rest of their educational journey. I was fortunate enough to have my elementary school teachers be some of the most inspiring energetic and exemplary educators I have ever met. I these teachers served to teach me the basic skills that I would need, both social and academic to succeed throughout my educational experience and beyond. These skills include the basics of mathematics, reading and writing as well as the perhaps less well known but equally important skills of critical thinking, computer literacy, and curiosity. These were the crucial academic skills that my elementary teachers imparted to me that enabled me to become the successful individual and today it with these skills alone I would not be who I am today in addition to the purely academic skill sets they imparted they also gave us our first taste of how to interact and work with others cooperatively and competitively.
The first and most obvious benefit of my elementary school experience was to instill the basic skills necessary for success later in life and my educational journey. I learned a variety of skills during this time that would allow me to pursue further challenges and educational opportunities. While some of these skills can easily mathematics, critical thinking, computer literacy, and curiosity which may be more of an innate skill than one can be taught the necessary skills often took a great deal more work on innovative practices. The phonics one of the primary skills that I developed during my time in elementary school was one of adults learn from my father who well once engineering major was always someone who understood appreciated and loved to teach math. I can clearly remember one incident during second grade when I was home sick and my dad bought me a small math book that just so happen to be of the fourth-grade level and helped me work through all the problems that day which often contained multiplication, division and other more complicated math I have not yet learned. From that point on which I was far ahead of the rest of my math classes between my dad's help, and my natural gifts in that area; I was solving basic balance beam problems by the time I was in fourth grade. Fortunately for me my teachers realized my interest in this area and were able to push me onward and teach me the skills necessary for further success. In addition to my math skills I learned a variety of other useful skills and practices that I would apply for the remainder of my educational experience computer literacy, critical thinking, curiosity, and a myriad of other less well defined but equally important skills such as drive, respect and many others.
Unfortunately not all of my elementary experience was as successful. My writing and spelling skills had always been subpar but as time went on I fell further and further behind. In reading I was slow at best and because of my limited phonetic skills if I came across a word I hadn't heard before or seen before I could not pronounce it, or guess its meaning. This lack of skill in reading exasperated my difficulties with writing, my difficulties with spelling, my confusion with regards to punctuation and my lack of general vocabulary severely limited my writing abilities. This led to a great deal of speculation as to the cause of my lack of skill in spite of my intelligence, determination and support. In spite of all of these qualities and the support that I received I continue to fall further behind with regards to my English skills. The result of falling further and further behind was that it was assumed that I was not trying as hard as I did in the other disciplines. This caused some of my teachers to, if not give up, at least stop bothering with someone who obviously wasn't trying his hardest; otherwise he would understand these concepts that the children gained and understood easily, especially when I outpaced these other children in many other areas. This resulted in me being placed in remedial reading program with the goal of overcoming various difficulties I was been faced with. Unfortunately this program failed and it was eventually determined that I needed glasses to be able to succeed; because it was clear that I was apparently unable to read the characters not that I couldn't understand them. In spite of the difficulties in reading and writing my other skills continue to improve along with my aptitude for math I also develop skills in the sciences and I also was strongly influenced for a variety of teachers who help me to develop those skills and pushed me onto the difficulties of reading and writing. By the end of my time in elementary school it was determined that glasses were ineffective as were the remedial courses so I was determined that I should be tested to see if there was anything going on that we were missing. After hours of laborious testing administered by the school psychiatrist it was determined that I must have ADD. A misdiagnosis as it would later be determined, but was only thing we had to go on at the time so I was put on medication eventually after it was again determined that this method of action, while successful temporarily, was obviously not the solution. So as the last weeks of fifth grade were coming to a close I had a full workup done by the Learning Curve, an independence educational assessment organization, the results would set the tone for the rest of my time in both middle school high school and beyond.
Another valuable skill set that I gained in elementary school was one that can only really be taught at that age. This skill is that of interpersonal relationships, being able to work with other people towards a common goal. A core component of my elementary school's philosophy was that student should working groups to develop these skills. This philosophy influenced my skills as both a leader and the student forcing every student to develop the skills necessary to lead a small group in a project that not everyone had the same level of knowledge about.
My experiences in elementary school have profoundly influenced the rest of my life. During my time in him and trade school I gained crucial skill sets that I developed and continue to develop that have allowed me to become who I am today and I also started a journey during my final years elementary school toward understanding who I am is wondering what this means for me.